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My theory: popular youtuber briefly explores the scene and does a video on it. People with no interest in the hobbyist community but still wanting to be part of something big and new to show to their friends (I call these people SteveJobheads) flood the scene, and the scene doubles in price from all the attention a few dozen vendors suddenly get.

I think the secret to surviving this is to simply jump to something else more niche and tell no one.

I used to passively collect calculator watches as a teen. Now? status symbol.

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~contrarian wrote (thread):

You might as well be calling out LGR by name.

The only calculator watch I've ever liked was this round Citizen one which came in silver and gold. You probably know which one I'm talking about.